The folks in Alaska may have a good idea that needs to be discussed (see the first article below). Essentially they are suggesting a separate, national, hand counted, paper ballot for President. Any registered voter can vote anywhere on that single race. The immediately apparent advantage is that it will enfranchise voters who may be away from home as they can walk into any polling place on election day, prove they are registered and vote the presidential ballot and that ballot would be counted, by hand, right along with every other ballot gathered at the polls. Of course, a glaring argument against is that this would require a national voter registration data base and states are having trouble just getting it right for themselves without joining all 50 plus the territories together into one. It may be an idea worth discussion and thought though. ...

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"In the case of a regularly scheduled general election for the electors of President and Vice President (beginning with the election in November 2008), the following rules shall apply:

`(A) The State shall conduct the election using only paper ballots.

`(B) The State shall ensure that the number of ballots cast at a precinct or equivalent location which are placed inside a single box or similar container does not exceed 500.

`(C) The ballots cast at a precinct or equivalent location shall be counted by hand by election officials at the precinct, and a representative of each political party with a candidate on the ballot, as well as any interested member of the public, may observe the officials as they count the ballots. The previous sentence shall not apply with respect to provisional ballots cast under section 302(a).'.

I do not want to see any sort of "Federalized" or "nationalized" voting solutions, period. Our elections are under state control and as long as we work on our individual state legislatures and secretaries of state (including voting in honest and nonpartisan pols for these positions) we have a better chance of cleaning up our elections. I'm all for hand counted paper ballots but no "national solutions" for me. Especially any solution that includes further databasing of our voter registration information--this is exactly how the "caging" and disenfranchisement is able to occur in such grand numbers as it is.

With the Democratic Party in the majority come January the door has been kicked open to bring many ideas to the table to workout a final remedy and return honesty, integrity, voter confidence back into the equation of the voting process.

The bleak days of Bob Ney are behind us, that monster and his cohorts who were determined to bend, twist, and contort democracy can't bring additional damage any more. The criminals in congress and those who connived to our detriment no longer pull the strings that determine our destiny.

We can and will clean up this privatized - electronic computer vote tabulating and vote counting - unauditable sham, fiasco and fraudulent mess.

That brightness at the end of the tunnel is not a run away freight train, it is now day light we see. Rejoice and celebrate, but keep your nose to the grindstone.

I see a practice in which any registered voter can vote for President in any state or precinct they happen to be in at the time would “enfranchise” people who can afford to travel from polling place to polling place, state to state, to vote as many times as they want and then it would be up to the authorities to figure out who did that and proved they did, and if they did how do they subtract the unlawful votes out of the total since we don’t track the votes to the voter. I could see the wealthier party sending out their people to vote early and often to run up their candidate’s totals. Am I missing some built in safeguard to prevent this? Real-time look up that a voter has voted in another state? Don’t think that’s feasible given our current inability to accurately count the votes that have been cast in the voters own precinct.